![]() “It’s a track that works well at a big festival, in a club, or just for casual listening purposes and that’s why we are very happy with it! We have felt so much support from our fans lately that we wanted to give something back with this free release.” Our goal was to have this legendary track appeal to today’s dance music community, while keeping the feel and emotion of the original song alive,” said Vicetone. “Remixing Bob Marley was one of the most exciting and challenging projects thus far for us. Their rendition is a warm, dreamy, ethereal masterpiece featuring hazy, distorted vocals, piano instrumentation and fresh, bright percussion. For their latest release, the Dutch outfit takes on remixing duties for the iconic jam and pulls it off with flying colors. Can you dance to this stuff? Sure, but you could dance to the original versions, too, and that's still the way to go.It’s not every artist that can pull off remixing a classic as beloved as Bob Marley’s reggae hit, “Is This Love.” Unless, of course, you’re Vicetone. Groove Deluxe's remix of "African Herbsman," Marley's recasting of a Richie Havens song, is momentarily interesting, as is "Rock Steady," remixed here by Alex Natale, but in all cases, everything Jamaican about these songs has been surgically removed. ![]() The tracks here are drawn from his time with Coxsone Dodd at Studio One ( Marley and the Wailers recorded some 70 songs there between 19) and songs recorded with producer Lee "Scratch" Perry, whose work with Marley is arguably the best stuff either of them ever did. ![]() It is not an album of remixes from anything Marley did on Island Records. So let's be clear about what Shakedown: Marley Remixed is not. Marley's work on Island is what most people are familiar with, and the label has carefully guarded and maintained that legacy. ![]() Most of Marley's early material has been reassembled and repackaged countless times, given the Jamaican propensity for recycling rhythms, versions, DJ toasts, dub plates, and dubious licensing agreements, leaving his discography a tangled, confusing minefield - up until he signed with Island Records, that is. It is difficult to imagine why the world needs techno dance remixes of Bob Marley tunes. ![]()
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